. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. The Yellow Magnum Bonuni (fig. 312) is a fine large plum, much used for conserves, but it is apt to ferment unless carefully preserved. Gisborne (fig. 313) is a yellow plum which bears prodigiously every season, no matter what may be the weather. It is a good culinary plum which no garden should be without. The Diamond (fig. 314) is very large and handsome, and ripens during the first week in September. The plum called the Prince of Wales (fig. 315) is a prodigious bear
. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. The Yellow Magnum Bonuni (fig. 312) is a fine large plum, much used for conserves, but it is apt to ferment unless carefully preserved. Gisborne (fig. 313) is a yellow plum which bears prodigiously every season, no matter what may be the weather. It is a good culinary plum which no garden should be without. The Diamond (fig. 314) is very large and handsome, and ripens during the first week in September. The plum called the Prince of Wales (fig. 315) is a prodigious bearer, rarely failing to give a crop, and that, too, after yielding a crop in the preceding year more than is good for the welfare of the tree. It should be grown in every garden. Although the Washington Plum \ g. 316) is generally esteemed as a kitchen plum, t it is really good enough for a dessert fruit. 1 he Wine Sour is a plum which ought to be 1 ought into common cultivation. It is a York- shire variety, and it has been thought desirable to advise growers in the south to try more extensively this kind. I have a tree, but it does not thrive well ; aftd there is an idea that this plum does not ripen out of Yorkshire. We grow the common Damson, but with us it does not bear freely On the other hand, a kind of damson supposed to have been raised by the eminent antiquary Mr. C. Roach Smith, called the Rochester Cluster Damson (fig. 317a), is invaluable for its productiveness. I learnt its value from that gentleman, and it is curious to look at trees of this variety laden with fruit, and compare them with the others having none. The Cluster Damson is by far the best culinary plum known. I grow also the Bullace [Prtimis insititia, fig. 3t7«.-Rc= Prolific. 3 j^^^^ ^hich is Valuable for con- fectionery purposes, and comes in later than any other plum. Buiiace.' We grow several kinds of plums in pots in the orchard-house, and the produce is enormous. The flavour of the frui
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